Walter Jost

Gebundenes Buch

All in All (More or Less)

Rhetorical Considerations in Literature, Thought, and Experience

Beschreibung

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to "All-in-Allness". Its chapters unfold some of the ethical and intellectual responsibilities philosophy and rhetoric share, their commitments toward literature broadly conceived, the limited authority of their interpretations, and the kinds of judgments they issue in. Part One, drawing chiefly on Ludwig Wittgenstein and Richard McKeon, leverages a central line of argument regarding "Rationality" in the pragmatism of Robert Brandom. Part Two pivots to specific instances of the range of rhetorical argument found in surprising places and in sophisticated arrangements. The book as a whole culminates in Part Three, where the author demonstrates how "ordinary language criticism" fruitfully bears on cultural models - film, drama, novels, poetry - belonging to "American Low Modernism."

Autor

Walter Jost is Professor of English at the University of Virginia, USA, and author of Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman and Rhetorical Investigations. He has edited or co-edited seven other books, among them Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time and Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell After Wittgenstein.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-56299-0
• Seitenzahl: 668
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 940g
• ISBN-13: 9783031562990
• ISBN-10: 3031562992
• Artikelnr.: 69942140

Rezensionen

Walter Jost has written an important and unusual book. ... All in All (More or Less) is important, first of all, for reviving indeed, relaunching a sophisticated mode of pluralism in cultural and literary criticism. ... All in All (More or Less) has the potential to illuminate the hermeneutical assumptions and cognitive habits of many readers . (Kevin Hart, Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 49 (1), April 2025)